Two tips for fixing up your iPhone photos

One zaps duplicates, the other zaps ... people!!!

Author

Lewis Wallace
April 01, 2023

iPhone photographers will love these two tools, one from Apple and the other from Google.

The first one finds duplicates in your Photos library and lets you quickly delete them, freeing up space. (I just ran it and found a shocking 495 dupes!) It’s a very clever feature, and Apple just made it even better by updating it to work with Shared iCloud Photo Libraries.

The other tool, Google’s Magic Eraser, lets you instantly remove unwanted objects from photos. It used to be limited to Google’s Pixel phones, but now it works on iPhones. (The only catch is you must be a paid subscriber to Google One cloud storage.)

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— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

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